Template:Did you know nominations/Marten Gasparini

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The result was: promoted by North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 08:59, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

Marten Gasparini

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... that Marten Gasparini's US$1.3 million signing bonus is a Major League Baseball record for players from Europe?

Reviewed: ~~IOU~~ Template:Did you know nominations/Ram Rath Yatra
Comment: This is similar to Template:Did you know nominations/Max Kepler-Rozycki. Kepler signed a record bonus in 2009, Gasparini's beat him in 2013.

Created by Muboshgu (talk). Self-nominated at 01:39, 13 April 2016 (UTC).

Definitely new enough. Long enough depends on how "readable prose" is defined. If spaces are "readable prose", then this clocks in with 1,524 characters, just over the limit, omitting headers, footnote numbering, etc., but including lead and body text together. I'd typically be concerned about this being so close to the limit, but the kid is only 18, so there may not be a whole lot there that is noteworthy yet. Content has inline citations and is neutral. Hook is short enough and interesting. Not sure why there appears to be a discrepancy between the article and the hook. The hook says that Gasparini's bonus was the highest for any European player. The article says it's the highest for any European amateur, which left some question in my mind whether a European professional player may have gotten a larger one at some point. The source supports the hook version, which also seems to be the more impressive feat. Could this be cleaned up? No image used, so no issue there, but QPQ review still needs to be done. Acdixon ^{(talk · contribs)} 19:18, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

I could probably expand a little more with info on his parents, and a skoch more on his career, but I don't think I could get it to 2000 at this point since, as you said, he's so young. QPQ forthcoming. – Muboshgu (talk) 22:31, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

Whoops I forgot to provide QPQ. It's done now. – Muboshgu (talk) 22:29, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

The boldly changed the article from amateur to player as commented above; it is what the source says (though gut instinct tell me "amateur" would be correct too—still, WP:V). QPQ checks out. Prose size is fine. If 1500 wasn't enough, it wouldn't be called the minimum. Leaving $ in the hook as it's a European player and I suppose some might not know that MLB is American. (For the life of me, I though MOS used to say assume $ meant US$, but I dont see it there anymore). Good to go.—Bagumba (talk) 06:00, 1 May 2016 (UTC)